If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. – John Burroughs
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – John Burroughs
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs